Viktor E. Frankl Quotes

Viktor Emil Frankl

Born: 26th March 1905 in Vienna, Austria

Died: 2nd September 1997 in Vienna, Austria

Profession: Neurologist and psychiatrist

Famous for: Logotherapy

Famous Quotes by Viktor E. Frankl

[quote style=”boxed”]Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.[/quote]
[quote style=”boxed”]Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.[/quote]
[quote style=”boxed”]Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone’s task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.[/quote]
[quote style=”boxed”]Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.[/quote]
[quote style=”boxed”]I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.[/quote]
[quote style=”boxed”]Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.[/quote]
[quote style=”boxed”]Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.[/quote]
[quote style=”boxed”]When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.[/quote]
[quote style=”boxed”]A human being is a deciding being.[/quote]
[quote style=”boxed”]Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.[/quote]
[quote style=”boxed”]Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.[/quote]
[quote style=”boxed”]Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.[/quote]
[quote style=”boxed”]For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. [/quote]
[quote style=”boxed”]What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person’s life at a given moment.[/quote]
[quote style=”boxed”]Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.[/quote]
[quote style=”boxed”]The last of human freedoms – the ability to chose one’s attitude in a given set of circumstances.[/quote]
[quote style=”boxed”]What is to give light must endure burning.[/quote]